Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Preface: A Puzzle, Some Premises, and a Hypothesis xiii Part one PossIbIlIty 1 1. Universal’s Names 9 2. Universal’s Organization 25 3. Universal City 45 Part tWo ImPossIbIlIty 91 4. Genre: A Category of Institutional Analysis 99 5. Serials: The Foreclosure of Collaboration 110 6. Gender and the Dramatic Feature 128 Postscript: Eleanor’s Catch 173 Notes 187 Index 221 ...